New Fire Ladders Installing Ceremony
The board of fire commissioners will visit Newcastle on Friday, June 22, and will meet representatives of the City council at the fire station, Union-street…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1923
454 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 23
Kurri Fire Area Pelaw Main Left Out
Cessnock shire council, in a communication to Taree shire council yesterday, asked what the position was regarding the inclusion of Pelaw Main and other…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Just in Time Big Fire Averted Outbreak In Sydney SYDNEY
Owing to a police sergeant noticing glass falling on to the pavement in Clarence-street at 6.25 a.m. to-day a destructive fire was prevented…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →For Fighting Fire New Appliances Giant Ladder
A demonstration was given at the Central Fire Station, Cook's Hill, yesterday afternoon, of the new petrol electric 90ft. extension ladder, which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Kurri Fire Area Motor Engine Linking Up Suburbs
With the object of ascertaining what the prospects were of arranging for ratepayers of Heddon Greta, Stanford Merthyr and Pelaw Main to agree…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →District Fire Brigades. Visit of the Board. Trial of New Ladder
A demonstration of the new petrol electric extension ladder, which has just been installed at the Headquarters Station of the Newcastle District Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fire in the City Zara-Strert Blaze Weatherboard House in Flames
A fire occurred in a house in Zara-street early this morning, destroying most of the contents and damaging the building considerably. The Newcastle East fire brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Body on Fire Peculiar Fatality Contact with Live Wire FREMANTLE
In peculiar circumstances Alfred Edwin Davey met his death to-day. The first tram into the city was proceeding along Beaconsfield-road when…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Escape in Night Clothing Blaze in Wickham Home Alarm by Baby Shop and Dwelling Gutted
WIckham fire brigade received a call at two o'clock this morning to a blaze in a shop and dwelling Immediately opposite the fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Chinese Relics Lost Pekin Fire Imperial Hall Incendiary PEKIN
The ancient Imperial historical hall at Pekin has been burned. Including priceless relics dating before the time of Christ…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire in Pekin
A message from Pekin states that a fire, believed to be incendiary, has swept the Forbidden City. It destroyed the ancient Imperial and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wickham. Early Morning Fire
About two o'clock yesterday morning the Wickham Fire Brigade was called to an outbreak in a small shop occupied by Mr. A. E. Fuller, situated in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer on Fire Coweambah Total Loss
Burnt to the water line while lying at her owner's wharf at Tea Gardens, Port [?]phens, the coastal steamer Coweambah is now a total wreck…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Paterson
A fire occurred in Mr. Garland's butcher shop, and a detached shed near the shop, at Paterson, at two o'clock yesterday morning. A large…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Maitland Shop on Fire Alleged Arson
About two o'clock yesterday morning a fire occurred in Mr. Garland's butcher shop, at Paterson. A large number of residents were quickly on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Steamer Hartington Bunkers on Fire. Brisbane
The Navy Office advised this afternoon that the steamer Hartington, 4403 tons, bound for Newcastle with a cargo of phosphates, owned by the Phosphates,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Paterson Fire
In connection with the fire which was discovered in a butcher's shop, occupied by Mr. G. H. Garland, on Sunday morning, Plain-clothes Constable Emmett, of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Steamer Hartington Fire Under Control. Brisbane
Early this afternoon the steamer Hartington was coming up the North-West Channel of Moreton Bay under her own steam, while the Anzac was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Undamaged by Fire Hidden Opium Seizure From Hartington BRISBANE
The steamer Hartington berthed at Pinkenba yesterday. She carries a Chinese crew, numbering 29. The presence of the Chinese caused the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Strange Fatality Found Under Tap Sequel to Fire SYDNEY
Patrick Kennedy, a single man, met his death in peculiar circumstanced last night. A fire occurred in a cottage at…
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